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Molten salt research is focus of ANS local section presentation
The American Nuclear Society’s Chicago–Great Lakes Local Section hosted a presentation on February 27 on developments at the molten salt research reactor at Abilene Christian University’s Nuclear Energy Experimental Testing (NEXT) Lab.
A recording of the presentation is available on the ANS website.
Edgar F. Bennett, Robert L. Long
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 425-432
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17392
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Expected errors in reactivity measurements made with a servo control are discussed and compared with observation. The influence upon measurement statistics of a residual spurious reactivity drift, of variable detector efficiency, and of servo control parameters is examined and compared with results using a thermal reactor at 72 watts. Power limited precision is shown to be obtainable with a servo control over a broad range of operating configurations and with good discrimination against incoherent residual reactivity drift.
